per week, for six months, amount to 130 pounds.

Add an economical allowance for family expenses for the same length of time, and for incidental outgoes, and you make up the aggregate of 4,000 pounds, which is 10 pounds to the acre, which an English farmer needs to have and invest on entering upon the cultivation of a farm, great or small.

This amount, as has been stated elsewhere, is the rule for successful agriculture in this country.
These facts will measure the difference between the amounts of capital invested in equal spaces of land in England and America.

It is as ten to one, assuming a moderate average.

Here, a man would need 1,500 pounds, or more than $7,000, to begin with on renting a farm of 150 acres, in order to cultivate it successfully.